Learn distributed tracing in .NET with OpenTelemetry: W3C trace context, Baggage, and traceparent headers linking spans across services, with C# examples. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/08/01/distributed-tracing-across-net-services-with-opentelemetry-w3c-trace-context-and-baggage

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Master NLog in .NET with this complete guide. Learn targets, rules, layout renderers, structured logging, and performance optimization for C# applications. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/08/01/nlog-in-net-complete-guide-to-flexible-logging

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Nobody regrets microservices on day one. The regret shows up eighteen months later, when the team is drowning in distributed-systems problems they never needed… Link to article: https://milanjovanovic.tech/blog/should-you-split-that-into-microservices-ask-these-5-questions-first

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OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics

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A practical guide to OpenTelemetry exporters in .NET -- configuring OTLP, Prometheus, Azure Monitor, and Jaeger with real C# examples for ASP.NET Core. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/31/opentelemetry-exporters-in-net-otlp-prometheus-jaeger-and-azure-monitor

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Amazon Quick introduces the Agentic Catalog Experience, an AI-powered workflow for data curators to discover upstream catalog assets in natural language and auto-create Datasets and Topics with inherited semantics. Now in preview for AWS Glue Data Catalog and Databricks Unity Catalog. Link to article: …

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Eliminate Stored Credentials in Your CI/CD Pipelines TL;DR: Docker now supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) for GitHub Actions. Your workflows can authenticate with short-lived, per-run tokens instead of stored PATs or OATs. No secrets to rotate, no credentials to leak. GitHub OIDC connections are available to organizations …

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As your AI agents move from prototype to production, the challenge shifts from getting them to work to keeping them fast and efficient. Learn how to use Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Observability and Amazon CloudWatch to find performance bottlenecks and diagnose memory issues in long-running agent sessions. Link to …

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A common request to a coding agent is only one line: Generate unit tests. That request leaves important questions open. Which code needs tests? Which test framework does the project use? Where should the tests go? How does the build find them? What should the tests check? The agent can learn from the repository, Link …

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OpenAI shares how its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices support responsible AI governance in Europe. The work will continue as the EU AI Act advances. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/advancing-responsible-ai-across-europe

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A full-stack approach to making advanced AI more capable, more affordable, and more widely useful. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/building-abundant-intelligence

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Somewhere in your notes there’s an app idea waiting for a free weekend that never comes. Consider this its official deadline: RevenueCat Shipaton 2026, the world’s biggest mobile hackathon, runs August 1 to September 30. If you know Kotlin, that idea is closer to the App Store than you think. Join the Shipaton The Ship …

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GitHub Copilot CLI vs Claude Code comparison for 2026: pricing, permissions, MCP, models, GitHub workflows, and how to choose the agent for your team. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/31/github-copilot-cli-vs-claude-code-which-terminal-agent-should-you-use-in-2026

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See how Univé built an AI-ready workforce with ChatGPT Enterprise by combining leadership, responsible governance, and employee-led innovation to transform work at scale. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/unive

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Dataverse Native Authorization Model for Power Pages How mapped identities, security roles, and record filters move external-user authorization closer to the data. We’re introducing a major update to the Power Pages security model: authorization for external users is now enforced natively in Dataverse. Customers Link …

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This is a potentially big performance optimization you can opt into starting with Marten 9.0. Not coincidentally, we’re using this for CritterWatch to help optimize the responsiveness and database size for a JasperFx client this week. Marten can serialize individual event types to a binary wire format (MemoryPack, …

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OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation schemes. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/disrupting-malicious-uses-of-ai-criminal-scam-operation

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Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA) is one of the most powerful tools available for understanding system performance on Windows. It helps engineers investigate Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) traces across CPU, memory, disk, networking, scheduling, input, and many other areas of the operating system. That power also …

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Learn OpenTelemetry HttpClient instrumentation in .NET: automatic spans, W3C trace propagation, request filtering, and span enrichment with C# examples. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/30/opentelemetry-httpclient-instrumentation-in-net-tracing-outbound-http-calls

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This is the July round-up for the Azure Developer CLI (azd). Five releases shipped since the last post: 1.27.0, 1.27.1, Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/azure-developer-cli-azd-july-2026

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